#existence

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value. ↗

— Sidney Hook

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No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women. ↗

— Bell Hooks

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We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

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The simple fact of existence, of being aware that you are aware; this to me is the most astounding fact. ↗

— William Hurt

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I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence. ↗

— King Hussein I

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There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does. ↗

— John Green

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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

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